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Just would like to take a moment to introduce myself as a new and hopefully
active member of this mailing list.  My name is Tom Wagner and I have been
diving for just about five years now.  Even before I was certified I
was surrounded by people who were truly active divers (100+ per season) and
I learned a great deal via osmosis.  I also became an active diver doing
NJ Wreck and beach diving and a multitude of quarry dives to improve my
skills and become a fairly competant and self sufficient diver.  I firmly 
believe SCUBA is something that not only needs a constant practice of in
water skills but also educational skills.  I try to dive as often as 
possible and work on a particular skill on every dive and try to find new
and informative books, papers and periodicals to read to further my dive
knowledge. I am currently Nitrox certified and plan on doing my cavern and
potentially my Intro to Cave during the fall.

Unfortunately, the thing that prevents most of my diving is work.  Ironically
my position is that of manager at a high tech SCUBA shop in northern NJ.
I have worked part time in the SCUBA industry for the last five years and
full time for the past two years.  While I am constantly surrounded by and
involved with technical dive discussions I would still consider myself an
armchair technical diver who often plays devil's advocate to stimulate
better discussion on techniques and dive plans. Over the next two years I
plan on doing more "technical" type dives, not necessarialy deeper, but 
perhaps shallower and longer. 

Part of my job as manager is to keep abreast of the latest developments in
technical diving and I think I have found another excellent resource in
this mailing list.  


        --wags

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